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Re: [Help-bash] IFS can not be made local?
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Help-bash] IFS can not be made local? |
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Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:30:28 -0500 |
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On 2/25/16 4:12 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi, The following example shows that IFS can not be set local.
The example doesn't show that; it shows that "address@hidden" always expands to
separate arguments regardless of what IFS is set to. You should actually
check the value of IFS after the call to `cmd'.
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